19 September 2024

CRISPRkit.  Roughly 18 years after Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier's groundbreaking discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, it's now packaged as a kit.  "Making gene editing accessible for everyone, everywhere".  Such is the progress of science, I guess.

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Brazilians can access X/Twitter again. With the help of Cloudflare, which Brazil can't ban, because too many vital services depend on it. That's the beauty of the Internet. You can't easily ban information access like you could with the regular press.

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Pregnancy changes a woman's brain. Husbands notice this too often. After the wife gets pregnant, you find yourself married to a different person. Who wants to treat you as a child, too. Shame.

In nearly 80% of the regions of Dr Chrastil's brain, the volume of grey matter - tissue that controls movement, emotions and memory - decreased by about 4%, with only a small rebound after pregnancy.

But there were increases in white-matter integrity - a measure of the health and quality of connections between brain regions - in the first and second trimesters, which returned to normal levels soon after birth.

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The SARS-CoV2 virus didn't do as much damage as government policies. And no where does it show more than in New York.  This revelation is just disgusting. It was all a scam, and people fell for it.

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